Pillow Talk

Pozharsky Cutlets with Mushroom Madeira Sauce

Pozharsky Cutlets with Mushroom Madeira Sauce: Somewhere between my early adolescence and yesterday morning, I got it in my head that cooking should be entertaining experimentation, and not just a means of achieving nourishment. Victoria will forever be my best … Continue reading

Pearls of Wisdom

Fregola Sarda Pasta with Olives & Tomatoes

Fregola Sarda Pasta with Olives & Tomatoes: The other night Victoria and I shared an amazing Italian dinner with some close friends. It was the kind of meal that lingered with me for days, as I craved just one more … Continue reading

Flight of the Honey Bee

Summer Honey Harvest 2013

Raising honey bees is simple enough, while deeply fascinating and entertaining. You provide the bees with fine accommodations, check on them occasionally to make sure they’re comfortable, and they will just do what bees do in making honey. However, after … Continue reading

You Say It’s Your Birthday

Swiss Chard Gnudi with Mushroom Consommé

Swiss Chard Gnudi with Mushroom Consommé: Many people despise the thought of their own birthdays, or at least later in life so it seems. I for one welcome them with open arms and a toast on high to just how … Continue reading

Over the Rainbow

Swiss Chard & Ricotta Cups

Swiss Chard & Ricotta Cups: I had a dream I was on a train that was moving so fast, it missed every station. I felt the same question repeat as we flew by the blur of faces standing idly – … Continue reading

Bone to Pick

Tequila Glazed Ribs with Grilled Asparagus & Caramelized Onions

Tequila Glazed Ribs with Grilled Asparagus & Caramelized Onions – There’s something primal about eating a slab of ribs. Regardless of how they’re cooked, or how they’re seasoned, ribs command an intrinsic carnivore undertaking to strip meat from the bone. … Continue reading

Play It Again

Moroccan Chicken with Couscous

Moroccan Chicken with Couscous – Classics sometime shouldn’t be reinvented. If Hollywood were to “remake” Casablanca, it would be a travesty at the least, and an injustice to an unmatchable original. However, in cooking it’s free game when it comes … Continue reading

Vegging Out

Cauliflower Fried Rice

Cauliflower Fried Rice: I came across an article recently on how Thomas Edison arrived at inventing the light bulb. It was actually some eighty years earlier where less well known scientists experimented with electricity that made carbon filaments glow. But … Continue reading

Searching Wildly

Edible Wild White Roses

Wild Edible Walk: Victoria and I went on a “Foraging for Dinner” walk through the woods at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA with regional environmental expert Russ Cohen. A walk with Russ is unlike any stroll through woodlands that you … Continue reading

The Missing Link

Quinoa Lasagna

Quinoa Lasagna: There has been a constant evolution in how we think about cooking. Whether seasonal experimentation or sheer deconstructing of history, it’s an entertaining journey bringing new definition to how our desired choices have evolved. Someone said to me … Continue reading